Sec. 3203. Report on competitiveness of United States exports of specialty crops
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Section 203(e) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 ( 7 U.S.C. 5623(e) ) is amended by striking paragraph
(7)and inserting the following: Each year, the Secretary, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report detailing the competitiveness of United States exports of specialty crops. The report required by subparagraph
(A)shall— identify and analyze acts, policies, or practices of foreign countries that constitute significant barriers to, or distortions of United States exports of specialty crops, including the imposition of— tariffs (including retaliatory tariffs) and quotas (including tariff-rate quotas); and nontariff barriers, including technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, import licensing procedures, and subsidies; in conjunction with the United States International Trade Commission, make an estimate of— the impacts on the competitiveness of United States exports of specialty crops of any act, policy, or practice identified under clause (i); and if feasible, the value of additional specialty crops that would, during the year preceding submission of the report, have been exported from the United States to each foreign country an act, policy, or practice of which is identified under clause
(i)if each such act, policy, or practice of that country did not exist; assess the extent to which each act, policy, or practice identified under clause
(i)is subject to international agreements to which the United States is a party; include information with respect to any action taken by the executive branch during the year preceding submission of the report, or expected to be taken after submission of the report, to eliminate any act, policy, or practice identified under clause (i), including— any action under section 301; negotiations or consultations with foreign governments, which may include engagement through the standing committee on sanitary and phytosanitary matters established under a free trade agreement to which the United States is a party; and action at the World Trade Organization, including dispute settlement actions, consultations, or negotiations; and a description of— any funds provided under subsection (f)(3)(A)(iv) that were not obligated in the fiscal year preceding submission of the report; and the reason such funds were not obligated. The Secretary, in coordination with the United States Trade Representative, shall— before preparing the report required by subparagraph (A), seek comment from the public and the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Fruits and Vegetables; and take such comments into account in preparing the report. The report required by subparagraph
(A)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. The unclassified portion of the report required by subparagraph
(A)shall be made available to the public in machine readable format. .
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